Box Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Whitehorse. At the 2006 Census, Box Hill had a population of 8616.
The suburb has the second largest retail and office precinct outside the Melbourne CBD. It has become very multicultural, and as a result has a diverse range of restaurants and cafes.
Box Hill was first settled by the squatter Arun...
more
Box Hill is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Whitehorse. At the 2006 Census, Box Hill had a population of 8616.
The suburb has the second largest retail and office precinct outside the Melbourne CBD. It has become very multicultural, and as a result has a diverse range of restaurants and cafes.
Box Hill was first settled by the squatter Arundel Wrighte, formerly of Van Diemen's Land, who in 1838 took up a pastoral lease on the land he had previously explored in the Bushy Creek area. The first permanent settlers, Thomas Toogood and his wife, purchased 5,000 acres (20 km²) in 1841, and Wrighte built a house on his property "Marionvale" in 1844. The Pioneers' Memorial, which can be found in front of the town hall, is made from a chimney stone taken from Wrighte's original house. It was not until after 1850, however, that Crown lands were subdivided and sold. Traffic along a main...
less
